Dining review: Bandido's

Burrito cart turns burrito shack, with top-notch food, uneven service

7:36 PM,
Apr. 3, 2013

The duck confit quesadilla.

Written by

Matthew DeRobertis

You've heard of storm chasers and treasure hunters. Well, if you've been in Asheville for a few years, you may have been a part of the burrito hunters. Not long ago, blazing the way for the rise of the food truck, was a small burrito cart, Bandido's.

Justin Smudde, chef and owner of Bandido's, would set up his cart somewhere around downtown - freshly stocked after hours of cooking in the now-extinct Tomato Cocina Latina kitchen. Before Bandido's upped its social media presence, half the fun was finding Smudde's chrome buggy of flavor before a crowd did.